{"id":140034,"date":"2021-02-08T22:12:14","date_gmt":"2021-02-09T03:12:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=140034"},"modified":"2021-02-09T03:14:09","modified_gmt":"2021-02-09T08:14:09","slug":"girls-hoops-van-wert-tames-kenton-47-37","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2021\/02\/08\/girls-hoops-van-wert-tames-kenton-47-37\/","title":{"rendered":"Girls hoops: Van Wert tames Kenton 47-37"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>Van Wert independent sports<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>KENTON &#8212; Kyra Welch, Sofi Houg, and Allison Schaufelberger combined for 37 points and Van Wert defeated Kenton 47-37 in a rescheduled game on Monday night.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"200\" height=\"113\" src=\"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/VW-Cougars_stacked-copy.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-96499\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The Lady Cougars, winners of three straight, improved to 8-9 overall and 4-3 in the Western Buckeye League, while Kenton dropped to 8-9 (3-4 WBL).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The game was tied 5-5 after the first quarter, but Houg dropped in a pair of triples in the second period to help boost Van Wert to a 19-13 halftime lead. Welch scored six of her 14 points in the third quarter and Schaufelberger added four of her 10 points and Van Wert led 34-23 at the end of the period.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Houg, who finished with 14 points, was 4-of-5 from the free throw line in the fourth quarter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kenton had two players finish in double figures &#8212; Jenna Manas led all scorers with 20 points, including five treys and 17 points in the second half, and Lindsey Smith tallied 11 points.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Van Wert is scheduled to travel to Bath on Thursday before closing out the regular season at home against Crestview on Saturday (11 a.m. JV start).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Van Wert independent sports KENTON &#8212; Kyra Welch, Sofi Houg, and Allison Schaufelberger combined for 37 points and Van Wert defeated Kenton 47-37 in a rescheduled game on Monday night. The Lady Cougars, winners of three straight, improved to 8-9 overall and 4-3 in the Western Buckeye League, while Kenton dropped to 8-9 (3-4 WBL). [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-140034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-02 06:35:05","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140034","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=140034"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140034\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}